WikiLeaks Inspires Online Oversharing

Julian Assange isn’t just the creepy scourge of government secrecy. The WikiLeaks founder is also the inspiration for a growing cadre of online oversharers who solicit unauthorized info.

OpenLeaks.org

Goal: To pass whistle-blower info to NGOs and news agencies instead of publishing it themselves

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Founded by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks editor who tired of his boss’s megalomania. Eager to avoid grudges and legal entanglements, he’s the anti-Julian of openness. (Plus, he’s not blond.)

GreenLeaks.com/GreenLeaks.org

Goal: To leak documents about environmental abuses—once they sort out a comical battle over which outfit gets the nameAssange score: